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Conf  Pam  12mo  #253 


REPORT 


OF    THE 


Committe  on  %  ItraWiarg, 


TO  THE 


SENATE 


OP   THE 


STATE    OF    LOUISIANA 


BATON  ROUGE :  ' 

J.     M.     TAYLOR,     STATE    PRINTER 

1861. 


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REPORT 


To  the  President  and  Members  of  the  Senate  of  the  State  of 

Louisiana,  in  General  Assembly  convened: 

The  committee  on  the  State  Penitentiary  beg  leave  to  report,  that  in  con- 
junction with  a  special  committee  of  the  House,  appointed  for  that  purpose, 
they  have  carefully  examined  the  accounts  and  vouchers  of  the  Lessees  of 
tire  Penitentiary,  embracing  the  term  of  their  administration  from  the  com- 
mencement of  their  lease,  on  the  1st  of  April,  1857,  to  the  31st  of  Decem- 
ber, 1860,  and  they  have  found  them  entirely  correct  and  satisfactory, 
except  that  the  Lessees  have  charged  to  the  expense  account,  interest  on  the 
sums  borrowed  to  carry  on  the  Penitentiary  and  the  cost  of  certain  struc- 
tures and  improvements  made  by  them,  neither  of  which  is  authorized  by 
law.  Your  committee  is  clearly  of  the  opinion  that  these  charges  ought  to 
.be  recognized  and  allowed  by  the  State,  as  these  improvements  seem  to  have 
been  absolutely  necessary,  and  the  borrowing  of  the  money  to  carry  on  the 
operations  of  the  partnership,  has  prevented  the  necessity  of  forcing  the 
products  of  the  Penitentiary  into  market  at  a  ruinous  sacrifice,  and  the  State 
and  the  Lessees  have  been  mutually. benefitted  thereby. 

The  current  account,  of  which  a  synoptical  statement  is  herewith  pre- 
sented, shows  an  indebtedness  on  the  part  of  the  State  to  the  Lessees,  on  the 
olst  of  December,  1860,  of  $45,126  05,  which  is  represented  by  the  ma- 
chinery, buildings  and  other  improvements,  etc.,  placed  and  erected  in  the 
Penitentiary  by  the  said  Lessees. 

The  Lessees  propose  to  terminate  their  partnership  with  the  State  on  terms 
which  appear  to  your  committee  equitable  and  advantageous  to  the  State. 
They  propose  to  have  their  lease  extended  and  continued,  under  the  super- 
vision and  control  of  the  State,  as  at  present,  to  the  1st  of  April,  1864 — 
that  they  may  be  relieved  from  the  requirement  of  law  to  pay  annually  into 
the  Treasury  one-half  of  the  profits  arising  from  the  Penitentiary — and  that 
in  consideration  of  said  extension  of  the  lease  of  said  relinquishment,  the 
said  Lessees  at  the  termination  of  their  lease,  shall  deliver  to  the  State,  free 
of  all  cost  or  charge  whatever,  the  cotton  and  woollen  machinery,  purchased, 


or  which  may  be  hereafter  purchased  by  the  Lessees  for  the  Institution,  as 
well  as  [the  tools  belonging  to  the  various  workshops  that  are  on  hand  or 
that  may  be  hereafter  purchased;  that  they  shall  also  deliver  to  the  State, 
without  any  cost  or  charge  whatever,  all  the  buildings  and  works  that  have 
been  or  may  hereafter  be  erected,  or  any  improvements  that  have  been  or 
may  hereafter  be  made  by  them,  at  the  Penitentiary ;  and  that  all  accounts 
which  the  said  lessees  may  have  against  the  State  on  account  of  their  ad- 
ministration of  the  Penitentiary,  shall  be  considered  and  deemed  paid,  and 
that  the  State  shall  also  be  released  from  any  obligation  to  purchase  from 
the  Lessees  any  part  of  the  stock  of  any  kind  whatever  that  they  may  have 
on  hand  at  the  termination  of  their  lease. 

Your  committee  believing  this  proposition  to  be  entirely  equitable  and 
manifestly  advantageous  to  the  State,  report  herewith  a  bill  in  conformity 
thereto,  and  recommend  its  passage  by  the  General  Assembly. 

Your  committee  cannot  close  this  report  without  expressing  their  high 
appreciation  of  the  admirable  discipline  and  internal  management  of  the 
Penitentiary  during  the  time  it  has  been  under  the  administration  of  the 
present  Lessees.  It  would  be  difficult  to  bringjthe  discipline  to  greater  per- 
fection, or  to  be  more  considerate  of  the  comfort  and  well  being  of  the  con- 
victs, than  what  is  witnessed  in  our  Penitentiary  at  the  present  time. 
Respectfully  submitted, 

A.  L.  TUCKER, 
Chairman  of  the  Committee. 


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The  Lessees  have  paid  for    Cotton   and  Woollen  Machinery 

purchased  by  them,  to  date $76,789  56 

Amount  due  Lessees  for  buildings  and  improvements 7,963  49 

Amount  due  Lessees  by  the  State,  as  per  annual  statement...  2,499  05 

$87,252  10 
New  boilers  and  machinery  to  be  added  this  year 3,000  00 

$90,252  10 

The  net  profits  lor  three  years  and  nine  months,  up  to  the 

31st  December,  I860;  amount  to $91,553  68 

One-half  of  which,  say  $45,776  83,  is  credited  to  machinery  purchased 
by  Lessees,  and  one-half,  say  $45,776  85,  is  to  the  credit  of  Lessees,  and 
constitute  so  much  capital  in  the  business. 


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